Improvement in reels



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Reels.

No. 141,084. Patentedjuiy 22,1873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT SIMON, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN REELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,084, dated July 22,1873; application filed March 8, 187 3.

To all whom" it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT SIMON, of Paterson, in the county of Passaicand State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement inSkeining Raw Silk, of which the following is a specification:

I propose to cross the threads of greges, thrown, raw, and soft silks,say, three times in each turn of the reel in forming the skein, toprevent the threads from mixing and knotting together as they now do,and thus save much loss of time and waste of material in unwinding bybreaking, snarling, &c. For so crossing the threads I propose to have awide reel, with, say, six arms, each carrying two disks as wide apart asthe threads need to be separated, and shift the threads across from oneset of disks to the other by a transverse guide at every alternate spacebetween the arms, making an odd number of crossings to each revolutionof the reel, so that each crossing will be opposed to the next precedingone, thus insuring the laying of the threads so that they are kept intheir proper relation to each other, one above another, in such mannerthat the thread being wound off the reel is always on top at thecrossing, and can be readily picked up at that point when broken bytaking the top one.

Figurel is a sectional elevation of a reel arranged for crossing thethreads in skeining silk according to my invention, and Fig. 2 is afront elevation.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the arms of the reel, B the disks on them, for dividing theskein in two parts, and separating them so that the threads may becrossed alternately bya traverse-guide. There are six of these arms; butas thethreads only need to be crossed three times to each round, thetraverse will be caused to shift only three times to each revolution andrest until two arms pass it; then shift before the next one passes, andby making an odd number of movements cross the threads the opposite wayeach time, and lay them one above another in regular order. The threadsare laid outside of the disks for the two divisions of the skein to bekept separate by them.

Skeins of raw silk and other kinds for which this improvement isintended, when not crossed in this way, are exceedingly troublesome tounwind, and cause great waste of time and material on account of themixing, intertwisting,

and breaking of ,the threads, which have to be carefully separated andmendedby the attendant; but with my improvement no such difliculty willbe had.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent A reel whose arms A are provided with dividing-disks,as described, for separating the two parts of the skein, so 'thatfthesilk or thread wound on such reel may be crossed in opposite directionsin the spaces between alternate pairs of arms, in order that at suchcrossing each separate strand will be above its predecessor, as and forthe purpose set forth.

ROBERT SIMON.

Witnesses G. E. MEDING, D. SPRINGER.

